Microsoft Teams: Chat filter for non-meeting chats

There will be a new chat filter within the Chat app which filters out meeting chats and chats with bots. It filters in one on one and group chats.

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Advanced eDiscovery: Enhanced import custodians wizard experience

Coming soon to general availability, the Import custodian’s wizard experience in Advanced eDiscovery allows eDiscovery managers to quickly validate and remediate any errors in their CSV file before submitting custodian import jobs.

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Briefing Email Language Expansion (JP, ZN)

The Briefing email from Microsoft Viva helps users start their day on track by surfacing information to prepare for upcoming meetings, follow up on outstanding tasks as well as protect time for independent work. Currently, the Briefing email is available for Microsoft 365 Enterprise users with Exchange Online mailboxes in English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. We are expanding to support Exchange Online mailboxes in Japanese and Simplified Chinese.

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Final Reminder: Important updates are available for Microsoft To Do apps

As mentioned previously (MC280287 – August) and (MC301049 – December), we will soon be moving Microsoft To Do’s backend to a more efficient service. For the best experience across all of your devices, and to avoid any issues with cross device syncing, you will need to update to the latest version.

Note: As To Do tasks are also linked with Outlook Android and iOS apps, please make sure that you update them as well.

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Configuration Change – Defender for Cloud Apps: Threat protection built in discovery anomaly detection

Defender for Cloud Apps is reassessing our built-in threat protection policies. On March 27, two of these policies (Cloud Discovery anomaly detection and Data exfiltration to an app that is not sanctioned) will be turned off by default for all tenants.

Note: After March 27, if you wish to not follow the recommended default setting, you will still be able to turn these policies on from the policies section in the portal, as well as continue reviewing the relevant data in the Discovery section.

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OneDrive and SharePoint: Access your Teams standard and private channel files

When you navigate to a site in SharePoint or OneDrive, you’ll be able to access the files stored in the Teams standard and private channels associated with that site.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Noisy signal management – Site URL and keyword exclusions

Define specific site URLs and keywords to manage user activity signals that may be considered noisy. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie on iOS in GCC

Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly and always stay on the same page. This native built-in app in Teams turns employee or company-owned iOS smartphones and tablets into a walkie-talkie, reducing the number of devices employees must carry and lowering costs for IT.

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Microsoft Stream: Add or Edit captions and transcript for a video in SharePoint or OneDrive in DoD

You can upload, download, and delete captions in the Web VTT file format for a video in SharePoint or OneDrive. This will enable you to edit transcript files generated by Teams live transcript or Stream via downloading the file, editing in a text or VTT editor, and re-uploading it. The VTT file will be displayed as captions inside the video player and as a transcript in the transcript pane next to the video.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Enhancement to Insider risk audit logs

,Additional audit of events included in the Insider risk audit logs including activities within Content Explorer, Activity Explorer, and User Timeline. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

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